Data Solution Architect

**Our people love the exciting and meaningful work they do, the cutting-edge resources and technology they have access to, the benefits we offer and the great community we’ve built. Want to join them?**

Kainos was founded in Belfast in Northern Ireland in 1986. Since then we expanded in the UK, Europe and North America and listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2015. We currently have 3000 people. In the past 10 years, Kainos have transformed the public sector in the United Kingdom to become one of the most modern digital governments in the world. While maintaining the biggest digital supplier to UK government status, we have also expanded our expertise in the Healthcare and Private Sectors.

We entered the German Market seven years ago with our Workday implementation business, where we currently have 80 clients. We also won a few large customers in the private sector.

We believe that Germany deserves a better digital experience across all sectors. That’s why we are ramping up our presence in Germany. We know that our pragmatic digitalisation approach is unique and we are looking for entrepreneurial domain experts to help us deliver on our vision to transform German organisations in a sustainable way through Data, AI, Cloud and digitalisation.

What we offer to you:

- Have an immediate impact by joining as one of the first employees and be able to define and shape the team, projects, and client engagements
- Become part of our global engineering community to increase your expertise in a chosen domain
- You will have access to all the knowledge, tools and practices that make our global engineering community unique
- Instead of being a number in a large organisation, you will join a small community of engineers within a chosen domain where you will feel you belong
- You will experience a high level of achievement and be proud of the outcomes of your and your team’s work and contribution

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE BUSINESS:
As a Data Solution Architect (Manager) in Kainos, you’ll be responsible for a multi
- skilled agile teams to design and deliver contemporary data solutions. You will be a quality orientated pragmatist, where you balance trade-offs to successfully deliver complex solutions. You will be viewed as an authority figure for data technology solutions, providing strong technical and thought leadership.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Successfully implementing functional and non-functional designs
- Working closely with Ops and Infrastructure architects to productionise robust, resilient, and maintainable data solutions
- Working closely with customer architects to agree functional and non-functional designs. Advising, questioning, informing, and helping the customer in making sound solution design outcomes.
- Working with your peers to develop policy and standards, share knowledge and mentor those around you
- Managing and estimating timelines underpinning solution delivery
- Owning technical solution design as part of a pre-sales process
- Making a significant contribution to the data community and wider data capability
- Managing, coaching and developing a small number of staff, with a focus on managing employee performance and assisting in their career development. You’ll also provide direction for your team as you solve problems together

Minimum (essential) requirements:

- Experience of leading multiple teams as the data solution architect, with ownership of a system of systems
- Broad knowledge of the full spectrum of data technologies (data ingestion, transformation, storage, presentation, consumption) being able to integrate these into successful solutions
- Strategic design thinking experience, including problem conceptualisation, approach and roadmap definition, architecture realisation and risk management
- Comfortable with traditional and contemporary data warehousing concepts
- Experience of deploying data-processing platforms from vendors such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks.
- Comfortable in one or more of Java, Scala, or Python with the ability to be ‘hands on’ when required
- We are passionate about developing people - a demonstrated ability in managing, coaching and developing members of your team and wider community.

Desirable:

- Knowledge of wider Data Architecture concepts, for example Master Data Management, Masking, Data Governance, Provenance and Lineage
- Experience of Technical Evaluation and product selection
- Comfortable with data integration techniques such as messaging, queuing, change data capture or data virtualisation

**WHO YOU ARE**:
Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our values aren't abstract; they are the behaviours we expect from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to display our values by being **determined** in how obstacles are overcome; **honest **when dealing with others; **respec